Emergency and Trauma Care for Nurses and Paramedics 4e. Edition: 4
The text spans prehospital and hospital care, enabling students to understand the patient journey and equipping them for their role in a multidisciplinary team. Coverage includes assessment, triage and management of trauma, physiology of emergency care, and the recognition and management of specific body system emergencies, as well as the fundamentals of emergency care such as quality and safety, ethics, leadership, research and patient education.
Fully revised to reflect the dynamic and evolving nature of emergency and trauma care, this book is ideal for students, prehospital care providers, rural, remote and urban emergency and trauma care nurses, and other disaster management clinicians.
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1. Emergency nursing in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
2. Paramedicine in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
3. Clinical ethics for emergency healthcare
4. Emergency care and the law
5. Cultural considerations in emergency care
6. Patient safety and quality in emergency care
7. Research for emergency care
8. Patient and carer engagement and communication
SECTION 2: CLINICAL CONCEPTS AND SYSTEMS
9. Scene assessment, management and rescue
10. Physiology and pathophysiology for emergency care
11. Clinical reasoning, problem-solving and triage
12. Major incident preparedness and management
13. Patient assessment and essentials of care
14. Resuscitation
15. Stabilisation and transfer
16. Clinical skills
17. Minor injury and management
18. Pain management
19. Organ and tissue donation)
20. End of life
SECTION THREE: EMERGENCIES
21: Respiratory emergencies
22. Cardiovascular emergencies
23. Neurological emergencies
24. Gastrointestinal emergencies
25. Renal and genitourinary emergencies
26. Endocrine emergencies
27. Healthcare-associated infections and infectious diseases in emergency care
28. Environmental emergencies
29. Oncological and haematological emergencies
30. Toxicological emergencies
31. Dental, ear, nose and throat emergencies
32. Ocular emergencies and trauma
33. Gynaecological emergencies
34. Maternal emergencies
35. Paediatric emergencies
36. Mental health emergencies
37. People with disabilities
38. The older person
39. Violence, abuse and assault
40. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use
SECTION FOUR: MAJOR TRAUMA
41. Epidemiology of injury
42. Major trauma initial assessment and management
43. Traumatic brain injury
44. Maxillofacial trauma
45. Thoracic and neck trauma
46. Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
47. Spinal Trauma
48. Major orthopaedic and neurovascular trauma
49. Burns trauma
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